Accademia degli Occulti was a learned society founded in Brescia around the middle of the sixteenth century.
[4] The Occulti had written rules and formed a relatively long-lived and stable society until its disappearance sometime after 1623, when it is last mentioned.
[3] The Rime degli Academici occulti of 1568 is structured as fourteen chapters, each on a member of the academy.
Each begins with the member's impresa (device), including an image and a motto; a prose commentary on the same by the academy's secretary, Bartolomeo Arnigio [it]; and a poem.
[1] Contributing poets include Antonio Querenghi[3] and Alberto Lollio [Wikidata].